Oregon Rep. Greg Walden, who heads the committee responsible for Republican congressional campaigns, on Sunday declined to call for the resignation of a GOP congressman from Louisiana caught kissing an aide.

"He needs to answer to his people and his family and needs to be held to a very high standard in Congress. And I don't think he's been to that standard," Walden said when asked on CNN's "State of the Union with Candy Crowley" about the furor surrounding Rep. Vance McAllister.

But when asked by Crowley if McAllister should resign, Walden replied:

I'm going to leave that -- I have not talked to him. I've only seen the video.But we should be held to a higher standard than what I've seen in that video.

Walden chairs the Republican National Congressional Committee and is following the lead of other top GOP leaders in Congress who have avoided calling for his resignation.

In his appearance on CNN, Walden discounted media reports that 40 to 50 GOP House members are ready to vote against giving House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, another term in the speakership.

"I've not seen anything that shows me that," said Walden, adding, "I think he'll get re-elected as speaker."

Walden also defended Republican priorities in the House, saying the party is focused on growing the economy. When talking about low voter approval of Congress, Walden pointed toward Democratic leaders in the Senate who have blocked House legislation:

And that's unfortunate, because we should work together to solve these problems, to grow jobs in America and actually deal with the things people at home care about.

They don't care as much about one party's image or the other. They care about the price of gasoline going in the van when they're taking the kids to soccer and ballet. They care about whether their hours are going to be cut back, as they are hap -- as they are being cut back under ObamaCare, as employers go from 40 hours to 30 hours. And that really hurts and hurts people in real ways.